Coin delivery chute



Sept. 3, 1960 A. R. BUCHHOLZ ETAL 2,952,348

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United States Patent COIN DELIVERY CHUTE Original application Nov. 14,1955, Ser. No. 546,679,

now Patent No. 2,922,427, dated Jan. 26, 1960. Divided and thisapplication Mar. 27, 1957, Ser. No.

Claims. (Cl. 193-31) The invention relates to coin dispensing machinesand more particularly to a coin discharge chute structure that may beused in said machines.

One object of the invention is to provide a discharge chute structurehaving an electrically operated actuating mechanism that may be underremote control by the operator for shifting the movable chute to itsdifferent dispensing positions.

A further object of the invention is to provide a movable dischargechute which can be alternately tipped for discharging coins through oneor the other of oppositely disposed dispensing openings and bodilydisplaced laterally to project through one of said openings to dispensecoins therethrough.

This application is a divisional of our copending application Serial No.546,679, filed November 14, 1955, now Patent No. 2,922,427, for CoinDispensing Machine.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafterdescribed and more particularly defined by the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional View through a coin dis pensing machineembodying the invention, looking into the front side of the chutestructure;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through a coin dispensing machineshowing the operating mechanism for the movable chute disposed in frontof the chute structure itself;

Fig. 3 is an elevation view of the operating keyboard for the machine,parts being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a circuit diagram for the chute operating mechanism;

Fig. 5 is a detailed vertical sectional view taken at right angles tothe view of Fig. l to show a portion of the fixed chute in which themovable chute operates.

In the aforementioned application Serial No. 546,679 the structure forcontrolling the selective dispensing of coins from the coin tray intothe chute CC has been shown and described in detail, and since thepresent application deals only with the discharge chute structure, onlythis part of the above mentioned application has been shown.

In the dispensing of coins from the machine it may be desirable todirect the coins from the fixed discharge chute CC to either one of theopenings BB in opposite sides of the machine. For this purpose amultipositional chute DD is mounted in the machine in the fixed chute CCso that under the control of the operator it may be inclined in onedirection to deliver coins through one of the side openings and in theopposite direction to deliver coins to the other of the side openings.As shown in Fig. 1, the chute is hung by pivots EE and FF to one of theends of levers EL and FL whose other ends are respectively mounted onpivots ELL and FLL. The levers EL and FL are respectively pivotallyconnected intermediate their ends by pins EP and PP to links GG and HH,The links GG and HH are pivotally connected ice together by a pin IIwhich is mounted on an operating lever 0L carried by a shaft IS,journalled in the housing, and which also as shown in Fig. 2 carries acrank or lever SX that forms one arm of a toggle linkage, whose otherarm TL is a rod slidably mounted in a pivot pin TP. A spring SP isinterposed between said pin TP and the connection between the parts SXand TL so that when the crank SX is moved beyond vertical dead center,the spring SP will tend to break the toggle linkage. The levers EL andFL are so disposed relative to the chute DD as to have one of theirsides SK form a support for the chute DD when in either of its inclineddispensing positions, one of these being shown in operative position inFig. 1. For controlling the positioning of the chute DD from theoperators station at the keyboard, a pair of solenoids SSC are mountedin alined position with their plungers SSP operatively connected bylinks SL to the pin SLL that connects with the lever SX and the rod TL.Referring to Fig. 4, the coils for the solenoids SSC have one of theirterminals connected to a supply conductor 135. The other side of one ofthe coils is connected by a conductor 136 with a manually operatedcontrol'switch 137 that connects with the other supply conductor 138.The other side of the other solenoid is connected by the conductor 138including manually controlled switch 139. Closing of switch 137energizes the right hand solenoid shown in Fig. 2, and closing of theswitch 139 energizes the left hand coil of the solenoid SSC, and asshown in Fig. 2 this left hand coil has been energized to move the lever51. toward the left, and in doing so it acts through the lever OL, linksGG, HH, levers EL and FL to swing the chute DD to the position shown inFig. 1. Closure of the switch 137 acts on the right hand solenoid toshift plunger SSP of the solenoid SSC toward the right and swing thelever SX over to the right hand side of the vertical, thus shifting thechute DD to the tilted dotted line position shown in Fig. 1.

When the chute DD is shifted to either of its dispensing positions, thetoggle linkage formed by parts SX and TL is broken and held in thiscondition by the spring SP which as previously noted also acts to movethis linkage after the same has been carried over its. alined toggleposition.

We desire it to be understood that this invention is not to be limitedto any particular form or arrangement of parts except insofar as suchlimitations are included in the claims.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing havingopposed side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing forreceiving dispensed coins, a tiltable and laterally shiftable deliverychute member pivotal- 1y mounted in said fixed chute for deliveringcoins to either of said opposed side openings, a pair of solenoids, asource of current and electrical circuits for energizing said solenoids,operator controlled switches in said circuits and mounted on saidhousing, and means connecting said shiftable delivery chute member tosaid solenoids so that when one of said solenoids is energized by theoperation of one of said switches said chute member will be concurrentlytilted and shifted laterally relative to its pivot to deliver coins toone of said side openings, and when the other of said solenoids isenergized by the operation of the other of said switches said chutemember will be concurrently tilted and shifted laterally relative to itspivot to deliver coins to the other of said side openings.

2. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing havingopposed side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing forreceiving dispensed coins, a tiltable and laterally shiftable deliverychute member pivotally mounted in said fixed chute for deliverying coinsto either of said opposed side openings, an oscillatory shaft, meansoperatively connecting said shaft with said tiltable and shiftable chutemember to concurrently tilt the chute member and shiftthe same laterallyrelative to its pivot, a pair of oppositely disposed solenoids, plungersfor said solenoids, linkage operatively connecting said plungerstogether, a toggle linkage operatively connecting said first namedlinkage to said shaft to oscillate said shaft and hold it in one of itspositions in which said chute member is positioned to dispense coinsthrough one of said openings, and means for selectively energizing saidsolenoids including a pair of switches mounted on said housing, oneswitch controlling the operation of one of said solenoids and'the otherswitch controlling the operation of'the other solenoid.

3. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing havingside openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receivingdispensed coins, a shiftable delivery chute member, a pair of spacedlevers mounted in said fixed chute for suspending said chute member andfor moving the same to an inclined position relative to either of saidopenings with its delivery end projecting through the selected opening,an oscillatory lever disposed between said spaced levers, and linksoperatively connecting said oscillatory lever to said spaced levers toshift the sameto positions in which said delivery chute member is in oneof its inclined coin dispensing positions relative to one of saidopenings.

4. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing havingside openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receivingdispensed coins, a shiftable delivery chute member, a pair of spacedlevers mounted in said fixed chute for suspending said chute member andfor moving the same to an inclined position relative to either of saidopenings with its delivery end projecting through the selected opening,each of said levers having a pad portion to selectively form a rest forsaid chute member when in an inclined coin dispensing position, anoscillatory lever disposed between said spaced levers, and linksoperatively connecting'said oscillatory lever with intermediate portionsof said spaced levers to shift the same to positions in whichsaiddelivery chute member is in one of its inclined coin dispensingpositions relative to one of said openings.

5. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing havingside openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receivingdispensed coins, a shiftable delivery chute member, a pair of spacedlevers mounted in said fixed chute for suspending said chute member andfor moving the same to an inclined position relative to either of saidopenings with its delivery end projecting through the selected opening,an oscillatory shaft, a lever mounted on said shaft and disposed betweensaid spaced levers, links operatively connecting said last named leverwith said spaced levers to shift the same to either of their positionsin which said delivery chute member is in operative inclined positionrelative to the selected opening, a toggle linkage connected to saidshaft to turn the same and hold it and consequently said chute member inone of its coin dispensing positions, and means for operating saidtoggle linkage.

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